DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.

June 17

Yay!
As we got selected as one of the Special 48 Hours discount, enjoy our special summer breeze sale!

You can get DreadOut at 75% off while we are featured on the summer sale special for 48 hours.

As for the rest of the summer sale, we are still offering DreadOut at 66% off until the summer sale ends. So, it might be a good time to have your friends experience the horrors in Linda's journey.

Also, remember to update your game to get the best experience playing DreadOut as we routinely fix bugs that are reported to us.
As a recap, here’s what have been updated on our latest build (2.2.5) :

Linda will have a new T-shirt than can be unlocked right from the beginning of the game. You can find the outfit through the van's trunk at the beginning of Act 1.

Fixed number of articles related to "Tomb Reader" achievement

Fixed "Book of the Dead" and "Tomb Reader" achievements

Fixed bug where loading the game will bring up the main menu instead

Fixed some ghost glitches where it went freeze but still causing player damage

for Mac / Linux usersThere is still an "asset release problem" on Linux and Mac within our engine (using Unity). The workaround is we would have to play from a clean start at almost every next scene/level. We apologise for the inconvenience but that is what works for now.

To recap:Start the app (DreadOut), play the game, finish current level, when the level is finished, it will advance to the next level which will mostly fail (because of the reason above). Just quit the app, wait for Steam to synchronise the cloud files, then start the app again, then load the game from the slot we use. Repeat for the next level. Again, apologies for the inconvenience.

Thank you for your kind attention.
Hope you all are having a wonderful summer. ☺

Additional notes: Some users might experience a halted loading screen after an update as reported on our community hub. Simply quit the game and reload the save you're using. We're still investigating this.

Thank you.

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DreadOut version 2.2.0 Released

Hi everyone!

We're happy to announce that DreadOut version 2.2.0 is available now.

DreadOut 2.2.0 now support language packs in the following languages :

Indonesian

Italian

German

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish (NEW in 2.2.1)

This update also include several bug fixes.

For those of you who haven't played DreadOut yet, this will be a great opportunity to grab yourself a copy. For the next two weeks, DreadOut will be available at 50% off.

Also, be sure to keep an eye out for our store opening this May at http://www.dreadout.com/storeThere will be lots of DreadOut official goodies available.

Again, thank you for all of your support!
We hope you'll enjoy the game as much as we do.

Reviews

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About This Game

When twilight fades. Where darkness reigns.

DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone and an SLR camera, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
Help her overcome the challenges that will stand before her. Survive the Dread!

When a group of high school students went astray from a field trip, they came across something totally unexpected. A town long forgotten trapped in a peaceful state of slumber. What they did not realize was what lurks within. And what seemed like an innocent stroll turns into disaster as the secluded town reveals its dark and terrible secrets. The presence of sinister forces from beyond their realm of existence.

It all comes down to Linda. She will experience stirrings of unfamiliar powers, emerging from within her. These new found abilities might just be the only way she can save her own life and those of her friends.

Explore a haunted environment in an Asian - Indonesian setting.

Battle against terrifying beings from a supernatural realm.

Solve mysterious puzzles that block your path.

Switch between first person and third person view.

Engage in a thrilling storyline.

Play Act 1 and 2 of Linda's terrifying journey along with Act 0 (previously released as DreadOut Demo).

I haven't felt compelled to write a review in a while, but I think this game deserves one considering how quickly I've seen some people write it off. (I include myself in that category)

After completing Act 2, I think this is a rather charming game with some really solid ideas, if finicky execution. The ghost design is excellent, and there are some truly impressive individual sections. One that stands out in particular is an actual dialogue sequence with one of the ghosts.

The game is weighed down in some spots by awkward pacing, poor conveyance and goofy NPC interactions. If you can muscle through those, you'll find a pretty solid indie horror game with a creative style that sets it apart from the standard first-person "roam through dark hallways" genericity of many of its peers.

It's quirky, it's fun, and surprisingly frightening. The final boss fight is a trippy, delightful end that wraps up the game very well.

DreadOut has its flaws, but overall this is one of the few modern horror games I would call "unique." It's worth checking out solely for some of the cool sections in the second half of Act 2. Recommended!

First of all, I've got to admit that I appreciate what the devs are trying to do, especially seeing all these bland, boring post-amnesia and post-slender horror games. DreadOut is not just a collection of jumpscares and definitely not a "get-out-from-the-creepy-labyrinth-while-a-monster-is-chasing-you" kind of thing. It has a story to tell, puzzles to solve, a bunch of different monsters with backstories, it offers some variety and even something that reminds a battle system, so it's more like "big" horror games of the past decade. Too bad that the experience itself felt frustrating for me. The "battle system" where you need to take photos of monsters is messy (although you get used to it after a while), there are glitches here and there, monster designs are not scary (moreover, I couldn't help but laugh in some "scary" scenes), puzzles sometimes feel too cryptic, Act 2 has a totally different pacing than Act 1 and... I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I wasn't scared at all, had only one or two moments when I felt somehow creepy. Despite of all this, the game has interesting ideas in both gameplay and story - and I totally loved the talk scene from the Act 2, DreadOut at its best. I wish there were more moments like that. I guess the reason for most of the problems is lack of experience of the devs, they're small indie team after all. Overall, honestly, I don't know if I can recommend this game or not, I have really mixed feelings about it. If some interesting ideas, great OST (totally going to buy it) and badass ending are enough for you to bear frustrating gameplay elements, you can buy it, it's most likely that you won't regret your decision. But I'll give it "Yes" because it tries to do something different in the genre.Hope my post was useful; it’s my first time writing a proper game review in English.

The game itself feels like a stripped down Fatal Frame with a whole bunch of Indonesian ghost lore.If you wanna skip the lengthy part of my review and go straight to the pros and cons, you can find them below.But first things first: the story.

You play as the Indonesian high school student Linda and you're just coming back from a trip with your school class. Your teacher drives down a road until she notices a blocked off bridge leading to an abandoned village. You don't know how you came here but you all decide to investigate. After investigating the village you find yourself in the school located there. Something terrible happens and you're trapped. Alone. Your main objective: get the hell out of this place!Linda herself has special abilities which make her sense and see supernatural beings that are nearby as well as items of interest.

To stay with the story, it isn't too bad actually. The game is comprised of three acts, act 0, act 1 and act 2. Act 0 acts as a foreshadowing to act 1 and act 2 is the continuation of act 1, released almost over a year after the initial game release. The story centers around a big chunk of supernatural beings from Indonesian folklore and has many twists to it. Also there are two endings to be achieved. Personally, I got one of the endings and it wasn't bad at all. Also, after act 1 the game gets much less cliché, effectively making everything more enjoyable.

But... what about the gameplay? Well, here are the basics:You can run, walk, interact with a lot of doors and items and use your IrisPhone (harhar) to take photos. The camera is the key mechanic of the game. Taking photos is used to defeat ghosts and solve puzzles, the camera vision is also used to uncover hidden passages, invisible ghosts and progress through the game.Then there's the dying mechanic. And by that I mean: you can not "die". You may fail, but you will never get a "game over" screen. Once a ghost defeats you, you will end up at Limbo. From there you may head to a bright light and you'll be given a chance to go at it again.Also you may collect some items along the way. Even though there is an inventory, there is no combining of items to solve puzzles in any way. Which is kind of a shame, the game had some potential there.

Since this is a horror game, the horror oughtta be there, right?Well, it is. As soon as it is nighttime, ghosts start to show up. When encountering some of them for the first time, they can be pretty scary. Through act 0 you will only encounter two of the many ghosts in the game - one of which is a heavy one. You can only sense it and see it through your camera, so when you need to get someplace fast but know there is a ghost breathing down your neck, you're kinda on edge. Act 1 features much more ghosts and if you're not prepared or know how to fight them or successfully get away from them you will get scared a lot. But after a while in act 1, you will know how to deal with those entities and then defeating them kinda loses its scaryness. So the horror doesn't last long. Until act 2, that is.For act 2 brings out a much wider variety of ghost mechanics that will put you on edge if you're playing it for the first time because you will get into situations where you just don't know what to do about them.But the horror doesn't only lie in the ghosts themselves. Act 2 does a lot with its surroundings. I won't spoiler anything though, but let me tell you this much: mirrors are the worst. Aside from that the game does underline its horror a lot with sounds and music, sudden turns of events and a couple of very well-placed jumpscares.It is quite rare that I appreciate jumpscares but the jumpscares in this game are just perfect. You'll never expect them, they will always catch you off guard and they aren't just cheap screamers with overly loud sound. They're good.

So overall, the horror in this game will wear off quite quickly during act 1, but that only leads you into a false sense of security because act 2 is just so much different.

But speaking of music, the soundtrack of this game features some really nice themes that are doing their job well. Some of them aren't for the horror of the game. These tracks just sound good.Back to the ghosts: A nice thing about this game is that every supernatural being you will encounter actually is a thing from Indonesian lore people in the real world believe in. That's a nice little detail. I adore that.

Of course, not everything is good about the game. But this isn't about plot holes, boring combat or anything.The main issue I am going to adress here are the horrendous loading times and the performance which sometimes goes BAD. Also the texture resolution is still hilariously awful and doesn't justify the loading times one tiny bit. Seriously, I thought I forgot some options in the options menu but nope, the textures are just blurry and I can't do anything about it.On occassion this game's performance sucks ♥♥♥. I mean, you're running around, moving your camera and BAM! you look in the opposite direction because the game was frozen for half a second and turned you around. Really annoying at night when you can't see sh*t. And the loading times are just awful. I don't even understand why they are so god damn awful. It's nothing on my end, that's for sure.On the technical side of things, I didn't get any crashes whatsoever. Just some bugs sometimes. On occasion the world won't load fully so you'll se the surroundings pop in one by one. And then there's starting from act 1 or act 2 which sometimes causes game breaking glitches. A restart usually fixes this however.

Well, what else about the game?It has got some little details to it that I want to point out here before switching to the pros and cons.If you beat the game once you will be able to go to the back of the car in act 1 and choose between a selection of different outfits for Linda once you start a new game. Some traditional outfits as well as some casual outfits.This game has some pretty nice effects, especially when interacting with some of the ghosts (one in particular that shows up in act 2) up close.And the game has boob physics. Yay...?Also, there's a ton of eastereggs to find. Some are related to the developers, some are related to other horror games and some are just silly little things to brighten up your day.Oh and the English translation is sometimes... hilarious. Yeah. Hilarious. Let's leave it at that.

So, off to the pros and cons.

Pros:+ A semi-open world for you to explore, find hidden items, secrets and eastereggs+ A variety of different settings, you didn't honestly think all the spookyscariness will be in that school, did you?+ The supernatural beings are all reminiscent of Indonesian folklore+ Solid horror that will keep you on edge upon getting to act 2 because it changes up things dramatically+ Very good sounds and music+ Story's not all bad and got a lot of unexpected turns, some stuff can be foreseen though+ Good English voiceover, good animation quality, nice character design+ Impressive jumpscares+ Big ghost variety+ Runs well most of the time, no crashes+ Boob physics+ Female protagonist (that's always a plus)

Cons:- You cannot die- The texture quality on the environment tends to be sub standard- Sometimes your framerate drops to 0 for half a second, effectively annoying the hell out of you- The horror in act 1 wears off quickly- Once you know how to deal with most enemies, killing them gets quite trivial (act 2 fixes a lot of this though)- Some achievements fail to work a lot of times- There's only two acts, wish there were more-+ Dat English translation tho

Would I recommend this game? Yes.The horror's pretty decent and at the current price I'd call it commendable.Also it's nice to play an Indonesian horror game for a change.

If you are a horror game fan, you should buy this game. you won't be disappointed!In game, you are Linda, an Indonesian school girl. After car accident, you and your friend are lost in haunted town. You must resolve some puzzle, defeat a lot of ghost by using your smartphone and camera, find the way out of the town.+ Good presentation, This game is from an indie development, So we shouldn't require a great graphics in this game. Graphics is not excelent and nice, But it is not too bad. The positive point is about gameplay and sounds.+ Very good sounds and music, Good voice acting, Music is very scary+ Story's not all bad and got a lot of unexpected turns, some stuff can be foreseen though+ Nice character design, Nice Ghost design, Ghosts are very scary+ Runs well, no crashes+ Female protagonist+ This game support Boob Physics+ Linda is cute- Performance is not stable. Sometimes your framerate drops to 0 for half a second, while u're running or looking around. This issue often happen in a school in act 1- Combat is too simple- Bad animation quality- Poor eniviroment graphics- You can't dieThe horror's pretty decent and it is commendableThank to Digital Happiness for making this game. it is my favorite horror game!